Twitter is a restaurant and developers are food trucks. My head hurts.
7 thoughts on “What. The. Fuck.”
It’s too bad you already used the “head up the ass” headline.
Obviously written so celebrity twitters would understand. Somehow I doubt they would anyway…
I would be less annoyed if the analogy was accurate. Perhaps a better one:
There was a bum named Twitter who used to pan handle on the corner. Everyone thought he was pretty cool so they helped him out. Once, he had enough help from others to get on his feet instead of being grateful he gave everyone the stink palm.
I get that Twitter needs to make money. I even get that they won’t folks to use their site and their app so they can shove in ads.
What I don’t get is why they don’t just have a premimum no ad service. I’m on Twitter enough I’d pay $10-20 a year to skip the ads. And why not just make developers pay a reasonable licensing fee. Shit Apple makes you pay $99 a year (and 30% of all sales for iOS). And we pay it even if it takes five years of paying to have something to sell
Don’t assume the celebs are morons. Many of them are not.
If you’re the sort to optionally spend $20 on Twitter, you’re probably the sort that Twitter’s advertising partners would really like to reach. Twitter’s growth potential is probably much higher selling ‘their’ eyeballs to advertisers than allowing their users to opt out with a flat fee.
Annoying, but hey.
It’s better to assume that they are, that way you can be pleasantly surprised, when one occasionally says something worthwhile.
It’s too bad you already used the “head up the ass” headline.
Obviously written so celebrity twitters would understand. Somehow I doubt they would anyway…
I would be less annoyed if the analogy was accurate. Perhaps a better one:
There was a bum named Twitter who used to pan handle on the corner. Everyone thought he was pretty cool so they helped him out. Once, he had enough help from others to get on his feet instead of being grateful he gave everyone the stink palm.
I get that Twitter needs to make money. I even get that they won’t folks to use their site and their app so they can shove in ads.
What I don’t get is why they don’t just have a premimum no ad service. I’m on Twitter enough I’d pay $10-20 a year to skip the ads. And why not just make developers pay a reasonable licensing fee. Shit Apple makes you pay $99 a year (and 30% of all sales for iOS). And we pay it even if it takes five years of paying to have something to sell
Don’t assume the celebs are morons. Many of them are not.
If you’re the sort to optionally spend $20 on Twitter, you’re probably the sort that Twitter’s advertising partners would really like to reach. Twitter’s growth potential is probably much higher selling ‘their’ eyeballs to advertisers than allowing their users to opt out with a flat fee.
Annoying, but hey.
It’s better to assume that they are, that way you can be pleasantly surprised, when one occasionally says something worthwhile.